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Unthankful

adjective
1.
Not feeling or showing gratitude.  Synonyms: thankless, ungrateful.  "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is / To have a thankless child!"






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"Unthankful" Quotes from Famous Books



... shook his head. "It be no use," he said, "but we ken try. I be not one to hev it said that I be unthankful. Here, lads, give us a hand! Ef I'll be riskin' my life fur any one, 'tis ...
— Culm Rock - The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught • Glance Gaylord

... administration, and without doubt, also, the consciousness of his powers as an investigator, determined M. de Lamarck: this task, so great, and which would tend to lead him into numberless researches; this friendless, unthankful task he accepted—courageous resolution, which has resulted in giving us immense undertakings and great and important works, among which posterity will distinguish and honor forever the work which, entirely finished and collected into seven ...
— Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution - His Life and Work • Alpheus Spring Packard

... Zounds, I will speak of him; and let my soul Want mercy, if I do not join with him: Yea, on his part I'll empty all these veins, And shed my dear blood drop by drop i' the dust, But I will lift the down-trod Mortimer As high i' the air as this unthankful King, As this ...
— King Henry IV, The First Part • William Shakespeare [Hudson edition]

... Whole is governed. Do we want to contemplate his munificence? We see it in the abundance with which he fills the earth. Do we want to contemplate his mercy? We see it in his not withholding that abundance even from the unthankful. In fine, do we want to know what God is? Search not the book called the scripture, which any human hand might make, but the scripture ...
— The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Complete - With Index to Volumes I - IV • Thomas Paine

... them of whom ye hope to receive, what thank have ye? even sinners lend to sinners, to receive again as much. But love your enemies, and do them good, and lend, never despairing; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be sons of the Most High: for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil. Ye therefore shall be perfect, as your ...
— His Life - A Complete Story in the Words of the Four Gospels • William E. Barton, Theodore G. Soares, Sydney Strong


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